Mary I. Williams
Michigan Technological University
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Journal of Sustainable Forestry | 2014
John A. Stanturf; Brian J. Palik; Mary I. Williams; R. Kasten Dumroese
An estimated 2 billion ha of forests are degraded globally and global change suggests even greater need for forest restoration. Four forest restoration paradigms are identified and discussed: revegetation, ecological restoration, functional restoration, and forest landscape restoration. Restoration is examined in terms of a degraded starting point and an ending point of an idealized natural forest. Global change, climate variability, biotechnology, and synthetic biology pose significant challenges to current restoration paradigms, underscoring the importance of clearly defined goals focused on functional ecosystems. Public debate is needed on acceptable goals; one role for science is to inform and help frame the debate and describe feasibility and probable consequences.
New Forests | 2015
R. Kasten Dumroese; Mary I. Williams; John A. Stanturf; J. Bradley St. Clair
Tomorrow’s forests face extreme pressures from contemporary climate change, invasive pests, and anthropogenic demands for other land uses. These pressures, collectively, demand land managers to reassess current and potential forest management practices. We discuss three considerations, functional restoration, assisted migration, and bioengineering, which are currently being debated in the literature and have the potential to be applied independently or concurrently across a variety of scales. The emphasis of functional restoration is to reestablish or maintain functions provided by the forest ecosystem, such as water quality, wildlife habitat, or carbon sequestration. Maintaining function may call upon actions such as assisted migration—moving tree populations within a species current range to aid adaptation to climate change or moving a species far outside its current range to avoid extinction—and we attempt to synthesize an array of assisted migration terminology. In addition, maintenance of species and the functions they provide may also require new technologies, such as genetic engineering, which, compared with traditional approaches to breeding for pest resistance, may be accomplished more rapidly to meet and overcome the challenges of invasive insect and disease pests. As managers develop holistic adaptive strategies to current and future anthropogenic stresses, functional restoration, assisted migration, and bioengineering, either separately or in combinations, deserve consideration, but must be addressed within the context of the restoration goal.
Journal of Forestry | 2013
Mary I. Williams; R. Kasten Dumroese
In: Sample, V. Alaric; Bixler, R. Patrick, eds. Forest conservation and management in the Anthropocene: Conference proceedings. Proceedings. RMRS-P-71. Fort Collins, CO: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 133-144. | 2014
Mary I. Williams; R. Kasten Dumroese
Tree Planters' Notes. 57(1): 21-26. | 2014
Mary I. Williams; R. Kasten Dumroese
In: Haase, D. L.; Pinto, J. R.; Wilkinson, K. M., technical coordinators. National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations - 2012. Proceedings RMRS-P-69. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 90-96. | 2013
Mary I. Williams; R. Kasten Dumroese
Journal of Arid Environments | 2016
Mary I. Williams; R. Kasten Dumroese; Deborah S. Page-Dumroese; Stuart P. Hardegree
In: Sample, V. Alaric; Bixler, R. Patrick; Miller, Char, eds. Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene: Science, Policy, and Practice. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Press. p. 113-123. | 2016
Mary I. Williams; R. Kasten Dumroese
Archive | 2015
Mary I. Williams; R. Kasten Dumroese
Western Forester. 59(1): 11-13. | 2014
Mary I. Williams; R. Kasten Dumroese